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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 11, 
; Rural isms 
NOTES FROM THE RURAL GROUNDS 
The Maliner Kren variety of horse 
radish distributed in a small way several 
years ago by the National Department of 
Agriculture is now attracting attention. 
Trials in many places appear to show 
that under good cultivation it really pos¬ 
sesses the merits claimed for it—vigorous 
growth, large size of root, freedom from 
fibres and prongs, extra keen and pungent 
flavor, earliness and clean, white skin. 
The Rural Grounds’ test began in 1902, 
and the variety lias since been grown to 
the exclusion of the ordinary kind, as we 
find it gives us better roots with less 
trouble, not being inclined to waste its 
energies in useless blooms and heavy 
ern Europe, forming great clumps and 
growing nearly four feet high when es¬ 
tablished. Our experience is that the 
corms will not survive our Winters north 
of .Virginia, except when deeply planted 
in exceptionally well-drained soil, nor is 
it a good subject for frame culture, as 
growth starts too early in unfrozen soil. 
It is, however, well adapted for green¬ 
houses and window gardens, flowering 
with ease and certainty in comparatively 
cool temperatures. We have bloomed 
and even seeded it in midwinter in a 
cottage window with no heat except an 
ordinary wood fire that did not always 
last through the night. The soil in the 
pot was not suffered to freeze, however, 
the plant needing about the same care as 
an ordinary window geranium. Gladiolus 
tristis had quite a run in this country 
some years ago, being offered as the only 
fragrant variety, which is erroneous, sev¬ 
eral other small-flowered species having 
the same pleasing feature, but is rarely 
late years, as European 
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foliage. Practical growers who have . 
tried it say that its early maturity and o 
whiteness of skin are qualities particu- stocks appear to be seriousl y diseased, 
larly valuable to pickle packers, as it is Should be Grown in this Country.— 
ready for use in October of the year ^ chief source of supply of the rarer 
planted, while the common kind does not bulbous plants is Holland, where bulb | 
really mature until the following Spring, growing is an important national industry. 
Immature horseradish has a rank, un- Hundreds of acres of moist, rich low- 
pleasant, and at times bitter taste, very Hods are exclusively devoted to the cul- 
moderate pungency and the grated root ture of hyacinths and tulips, with great 
soon darkens and loses strength. Our numbers of less popular species, grown 
experience is that the Maliner variety dug as s idc issues. _Vcrv intensive fertiliza- 
any time after the foliage dies down tion is needed to grow the large bulbs 
grates white and clean, with but little loss demanded by the home and export trade, 
on account of the thin, smooth skin, and ar, d yearly applications of 12 to 14 inches 
keeps its color and sharpness many cow manure are quite usual, and often 
weeks, without any preservative, if mixed followed by lesser Fall coating of four to 
with good vinegar and kept covered in s * x inches of similar material. This is all 
the usual way. right for the plants that need it, but soils 
Claimed to be Productive.— We get 50 saturated with animal manures are 
larger, smoother roots under very ordi- rank p01SOn to certam species of Gladioli, 
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nary culture than we have ever had from 
the common kind, but grow it in such 
small quantity that we cannot judge of 
the comparative yield. One large grower 
says it yielded last year one-third more 
than the ordinary sort, many roots 
that best thrive in light soils containing 
only moderate amounts of humus. Im¬ 
ported corms of Tristis and other Win¬ 
ter-blooming species are frequently so 
weak or diseased that it is not possible 
to grow them with satisfaction. When 
weighing 2) l / 2 pounds each, and realized p,anted in a compost of sandy garden 
seven cents the pound in the wholesale pum and swamp muck that has been 
markets. Good common horseradish weather «I a season or two, they come 
sells at wholesale for prices varying 
from three to five cents the pound. 
Comes from Bohemia.— The Maliner 
horseradish takes its name from a village 
in Bohemia, Northern Austria, where the 
variety probably originated and has been 
cultivated from time immemorial. The 
output from the Maliner district is cele- 
out much better than thej’- go in—if they 
grow at all—and give good blooms the 
following season. Our practice is to fill 
the pot or box two-thirds full of the 
compost, even placing some fine old ma¬ 
nure near the bottom, and the remaining 
third with pure weathered muck or peat, 
in which the bulbs or corms are embedded. 
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brated throughout middle Europe and raen , aMe material, while the less 
sells for better prices in the large capitals 
than any other. Some of it even finds 
its way to this country, where it sells 
at fancy prices. Long-continued selection 
has probably developed the special qual¬ 
ities for which this variety is prized, and 
under careless culture it will likely de- 
generate. The methods in use in Bo- drainage> a „j appears"veiyTuiiaHe* for 
henna, as deta.led m a bul etin issued tbe pt , rpose . Verv peaty soi , wou|d b _ 
by the Department of Agnculture at the , Hy require a „ admixture of sand t0 ren . 
tune of the distribution, appear too la- der more porous DlfficuIt varieties 
bonous to be practicable here, but it was and species of Gladiolus often , hr!ve we „ 
found that roots of great sire and fine p)anted outside in ordi soi] if bcd . 
sensi¬ 
tive roots in due time seek fertility in the 
lower levels. Swamp earth, muck or 
peat contains very few germs and rarely 
induces decay in bulbous or fleshy-rooted 
plants that find it congenial. Our local 
swamp material naturally contains con¬ 
siderable fine sand, which ensures good 
quality may be grown under ordinary 
market-garden conditions. Plants are still 
scarce in this country, but are listed by 
at least one Philadelphia seedsman. 
A Pot of Gladiolus Tristis. —The 
blooms of the yellow or self-colored 
variety of Gladiolus tristis shown in Fig. 
ded in and covered with this sandy 
swamp soil, after exposing it to frost 
over Winter. It is scarcely practicable 
to hold the Winter-blooming species over 
for Spring planting, as the corms do not 
keep as well out of the soil as the kinds 
used for Summer flowering. The habit 
of growing during our Winter months, 
183, page 395, are arranged as grown which form, of. course, the Summer of 
from five corms planted in a five-inch South African home, is so strongly 
pot in September, and opened under glass c -f n \ to\°eep them^orma^t ^I't 
in February. The flowers are about two would appear that there are localities in 
inches across, borne on stems two feet the South and on the Pacific Coast suit- 
tall, and are naturally much reduced in ^ ie .* r culture. There are a num- 
nirtiire TIip i<= unifnrm llo-Lf b , cr of s P ecies an <3 varieties desirable for 
f / ' ° * uniform light t ] 1e pur pose, the best being the subject of 
sulphur yellow, and the blooms, while de- illustration, G. tristis concolor. also sold 
void of fragrance in daylight, are de- under the name of G. grandis, G. alatus, 
liciously fragrant at night and earlv f r * mac ulatus, G. vittatus or vinulus, G. 
• T-i i . . , , . Watson ms and the numerous florists’vari- 
morning. They last well in water, being eties of G cardinalls G ram0S t,s and G 
good for a week of decorative effect if Colvillei, of which the pure white kind 
cut young and kept reasonably cool, known as “The Bride” is most valuable. 
While a native of Natal, South Africa, European stocks of 1 he Bride are now 
this Gladiolus appears to be quite hardy quite Vs likelVto m-fW' tkat V ey are 
. L ^ t> as Jlkel y to net the grower loss as 
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